TheImpThatRides

No worries! Same way, i don't care if you loved it, that's great but don't hate on me because I was underwhelmed.

It was a joke, go read some of the prior comments about people not liking the episode. (I wasn't thrilled with it)

Dude stop gnashing your teeth and cut out the teen angst stuff complaining. Cereal.

Yep I probably would have given it an 8 up until Tyrion's scene. No Lancel, no Tysha, just Shae. That's why it got a 6. Edited to add: She really doesn't even say anything to Tyrion, just tries to attack him. Just felt like they mangled the whole sequence.

One of a few reasons I'm not going to "follow" the show as intensely as I have prior.

6. Meh.

Gave it an 8. The past couple of weeks the dialogue just hasn't seemed that great and I thought it detracted from the first twenty minutes or so. Didn't like Pyp and Grenn dying although I wouldn't knock off serious points for that (well maybe half a point for Grenn). I did like the 360 degree continuous shot of the battle in the courtyard, thought that was fantastic. And I may be alone in this but I kinda liked what they did with Thorne, to me it did something the books never really did (that I can recall) by validating why Mormont had him as the NW drill sergeant. And I know, I know where the CGI budget went for this episode but if you're gonna let Ghost out, you gotta let him out a bit more than that.

Sounds good to me.

My point was that it actually wasn't at first. There were many white and black indentured servants in the new world. And I don't want to get into a debate about who the first slave owner was in what would become the United States, but at least one of the first legally recognized slave owners was a black man who sued and won indefinite custody of another black man, despite testimony from two white indentured servants that the black servant had fulfilled his agreement.

It evolved into that but it certainly didn't start that way.

I think the key to the goat bone scene was that she paid the goatherd three times what his herd was worth and the look on Barristan's face. That sets up the dozens of goatherds that will start showing up and will make the scene people may have thought that one was going to be even more dramatic.

I understood the point of the Dreadfort scene, just didn't like how it ended, with the appearance of Yara running from dogs. Just my humble opinion, but I think it would have been better if it ended something like Ramsey steps aside- "you know, you've traveled so far I'd hate for you to leave empty handed. If there is a man named Theon present he is free to go" Theon- "No, no I'm Reek. Reek Reek it rhymes with meek! I'm your Reek!" Cut to Yara looking horrified, disgusted, etc and then have the beach scene where she says her brother is dead. It may be nitpicking but to me that would have been less anti-climactic. Still gave it a 9 overall though.